igitt --- yuck
The top candidate for the EU elections Harald Vilimsky and Vice-Chancellor HC Strache of the far-right FPÖ
Vilimsky threatened Armin Wolf, anchorman of the ORF, the Austrian national public service broadcaster, with consequences, after this one had confronted him with a racist poster of a FPÖ youth organisation and asked him about the difference to a comparable caricature of the Nazi newspaper 'Der Stürmer'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RvQ37seys
As to Strache I cite an article of the Guardian:
"Austria’s deputy leader has said his party is fighting against a “replacement” of the native population, endorsing a term usually employed by the extreme right, as the country’s rightwing populists double down on their rhetoric before the European elections.
Heinz-Christian Strache, the deputy chancellor in Austria’s conservative-nationalist coalition government and the leader of the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), told the Krone newspaper on Sunday that his party was “consistently following the path for our Austrian homeland, the fight against population replacement, as people expect of us.”
When the interviewer interjected to say “population replacement” was a term associated with rightwing extremists, Strache replied that it was “a term of reality”, adding: “We don’t want to become a minority in our own country. That’s legitimate and fair and deeply democratic.”
The term “great replacement”, which originated in a 2012 book of the same title (Le Grand Remplacement) by a French author, Renaud Camus, has been taken up by rightwing extremist groups and was the title of a “manifesto” written by the gunman who carried the attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March..."
Read the rest here: www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/29/austrian-deputy-lea...
igitt --- yuck
The top candidate for the EU elections Harald Vilimsky and Vice-Chancellor HC Strache of the far-right FPÖ
Vilimsky threatened Armin Wolf, anchorman of the ORF, the Austrian national public service broadcaster, with consequences, after this one had confronted him with a racist poster of a FPÖ youth organisation and asked him about the difference to a comparable caricature of the Nazi newspaper 'Der Stürmer'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RvQ37seys
As to Strache I cite an article of the Guardian:
"Austria’s deputy leader has said his party is fighting against a “replacement” of the native population, endorsing a term usually employed by the extreme right, as the country’s rightwing populists double down on their rhetoric before the European elections.
Heinz-Christian Strache, the deputy chancellor in Austria’s conservative-nationalist coalition government and the leader of the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), told the Krone newspaper on Sunday that his party was “consistently following the path for our Austrian homeland, the fight against population replacement, as people expect of us.”
When the interviewer interjected to say “population replacement” was a term associated with rightwing extremists, Strache replied that it was “a term of reality”, adding: “We don’t want to become a minority in our own country. That’s legitimate and fair and deeply democratic.”
The term “great replacement”, which originated in a 2012 book of the same title (Le Grand Remplacement) by a French author, Renaud Camus, has been taken up by rightwing extremist groups and was the title of a “manifesto” written by the gunman who carried the attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March..."
Read the rest here: www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/29/austrian-deputy-lea...